Friday, January 4, 2019

Untitled

I lay to rest
Dreams sweep over me
Call it flying
Drifting back into myself
I call it freedom

I write poems
In between my thoughts
Rest exists in the beyond
A full world inside
My own invention

I wonder why I wander
I wake, I sleep
Touching all that is within reach
The stars call my names
Illuminating my path

Capture every emotion
There is art in
Stolen little glimpses
Unwinding is understanding
The recesses

I am never lost
I wonder
All the whys
Live all the lives
Love all the loves

When I leave all behind
There is  nothing else
I hold onto laughter and tears
Kept in the safety
Of my own palm

Anywhere I go, there you are
Everything in me
Runs to you, with you
I will keep on finding
My song, my dance

Words, as they come to me,
I lay them down
What is left unsaid matters
At the break of dawn
Each day is new

I hold today's unknowns
Like dreams
Images that don't yet exist
Elusive yet palpable
Remnants of lives well lived

I will make an impression
Not merely exist












Thursday, December 27, 2018

Midnight Poem

I have things to say
Nothing original 
You know that already
I like how well you know that 
I am not profound 

I called myself a writer 
I let you read what I wrote too 
I recited my works aloud 
For you 
To hear them in my voice; and that is my why 

I take the time 
To take the time 
Be Still is my mantra 
So, I tell you everything, I feel 
Every feeling becomes more real 

I take your picture 
So I can continue on loving you 
I can keep you, seeing you 
The way you once looked 
At me 

Your eyes glassy with truths 
Only I can see 
I tell you, I feel every ounce of it 
The weight you carry 
Makes me want to hold you more 

A person cannot live their whole entire life 
Without soup 
That is not a life worth living 
There is so much 
I didn’t not know 

I get perspective. 
So many 
People are more gifted than me, or less 
And, I have everything In life 
Or I have nothing 
Depending on the day, both 

Glass can be blown under a flame 
Or it can shatter when you let go 
Love whispers and waits 
Beauty waiting to born, it cannot be 
Kept safely at a distance 

So I will be a dream chaser 
I will also go nowhere 
And dream of what will come to me 
There is no reason 
I just will 

And now it is already 
Tomorrow

Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Ode to Manchego

Oh how I crave you, dear Manchego 
I long for your nutty richness 
On my tongue 
My Sweetness, you are delicate in nature 
You are a lover in my mouth 

I hunger for more of you each day 
I no longer can deny 
How you complement the seediness 
Of my cracker 
You give more than I deserve 

You are a well aged 
Beauty Sophisticated, cultured and refined 
So good, you come from the finest breed 
I will travel miles for you 
You never disappoint me 

Faithful and true, aged to perfection 
Unassuming in your greatness 
My dreams make me ache for you 
Full bodied, only you can deliver 
Everything I need 

Wise one, I thank you for your presence 
You fill my indulgent desires with your rustic woody notes
My love-longing satisfied with your fat 
Mi Corazón, mi queso Manchego 

Together, we make the perfect pairing

Sunday, April 29, 2018

Menstruation

I love you who challenges me
Just hours before the pink moon rises
You bring me your crimson gift
Flowing rose petals flutter between my thighs
You arrive

When you’re around
Liquid flows from my body in various forms
Tears of vulnerability
Flow freely
I float in salted water and my elements

I spend time reflecting
Horizontal in my position
When I stand, I’m reminded of your presence
Because you run from me
Violently

I am a blooming rose, spectacular and beautiful
Red blood pumping through my heart
Blood red running down my legs
Swollen uterus, empty womb
I embrace this life of bleeding

At 43, I hug my emptiness
Soon I won’t ride these waves again
No longer do I desire to be full with baby, full in breast
You and I will say goodbye
I wait for the day that I am my own again

Saturday, April 21, 2018

Ode To Christa

Oh, glorious Christa
You are to be celebrated
Sweet in your manner, usually
You smell like lavender flowers, mint and patchouli 
I love how you cut your bangs without permission
I also love the way you resist patriarchy too
There is so much to love about you
Your wit, sincerity and wandering soul
A woman of depth, strength and fire
I love to see you grow

We have created meaningful memories
Even if your husband disapproves of me
You bake the best cookies, brownies
And now you bake my banana bread recipe
So charmingly, in your apron, you bake in your kitchen
I crave your lentils; your charismatic legumes
When I hold your baby girl, I want her
Because she is part of you
You plant strawberries in your garden
Later, I see your blossoms bloom

One year ago today we met
I cannot promise an ode each year
No matter time or space
We shall be sisters, my kindred spirit
You are extraordinary in so many ways
I hope you know it
You radiant, glowing, woman that belongs to no one
This is my way of showing
My love for you will never stop growing
Until

The End









Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Untitled

There is so much 
Love to love

I feel the space
Between us 
To do just that

Feeling feelings
Is my way of living,
My way of freedom

I've always maintained
I cannot be contained
My mind wanders 

I refuse to label my humaness
I will just own 
Who I am 

And, still you love me
Fully
More than I could know

I exist in the wilderness
Floating in the thickness of the clouds
Resisting the ground that calls me back

Why do I love you so?
Every time, the answer is
Because you love me first

For my whole life
I will choose
You




Monday, March 5, 2018

My Process



If you have never been lonely
You are more alone
Than me

If all your time is full
You are not your own
Best Friend

If you've never doubted
If you've never wondered, wandered
You don't know where home really is

If life is too easy
You haven't lived
One minute

If you don't question everything
You have nothing
Real

If you haven't been restless
You are not well
Rested

I've been both dead, and alive
Second chances
Are my way of life

I wonder, I wander
I search, I seek
I keep on living, keep on loving

Whispers of judgments
Hover in the air
Surrounding my freedom

I've gotten so skilled
Learning to reject
What doesn't serve me well

It's not easy to accept
All of my
Freedom

I will keep going
Where the green grass is greener
I will be a dream chaser

All of my life
I will soak up, I will soak in
The sun

It's the sun that keeps calling
Again each morning
I wake up

To live